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After the storm: Who clears up when academy trusts collapse?

Pippa Allen-Kinross — Mon, 17 Feb 2020 05:00:43 +0000

“I went through a calendar with someone in the first week and said: ‘I can see there is a training day at a strange point in the year, what’s that for?’,” Jo Saxton, chief executive of Turner Schools, recalls. Her trust had just taken over two schools from the Lilac Sky academy trust, which shut […]

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Durand land finally being handed back, but private firm demands compensation

Pippa Allen-Kinross — Fri, 24 Jan 2020 12:34:15 +0000

A private company linked to Durand Academy has finally agreed to hand back land on the now-closed school’s site, but is demanding compensation from the government. Durand Education Trust owns land occupied by a leisure centre and housing at the school in Lambeth, south London. The school’s original sponsor, Durand Academy Trust, is being wound […]

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School branded ‘inadequate’ over Islamic leaflet launches legal challenge

Pippa Allen-Kinross — Thu, 23 Jan 2020 18:04:12 +0000

An Islamic girls’ school has launched a legal challenge after being rated ‘inadequate’ because inspectors discovered an “inflammatory leaflet” advertising a conference in 1994 on a bookshelf in the library. Birchfield Independent Girls’ School, in Birmingham, insisted they had no idea the leaflet was there and it “has no place in our teachings, curriculum or […]

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